Upcoming Events

You are therefore invited to all our events below! So come get inspiration to stir up the creativity in any of your artistic writing processes!

What is Poetry Slam?

“Poetry Slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and perform, encouraging poets to focus on what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. In competition, the poets are judged by members of the audience. Typically, the host (the Writing Center) selects the judges, who are instructed to give numerical scores (on a zero to 10 or one to 10 scale) based on the poet’s content and performance.”

What are the rules?

1 Each poem must be of the poet’s own construction
2.Each poet gets three-five minutes(plus a ten second grace period) to read one poem. If the poet goes over time, points will be deducted from the total score.
3.Of the scores the poet received from the five judges, the high and low scores are dropped and the middle three are added together, giving the poet a total scores of 0-30
4. All poems are to be free of offensive and obscene language

Who gets to participate?

Opened to everyone (Faculty, staff, students) who wishes to sign up. (Participants can pair up with another poet to perform). Though everyone who signs up has the opportunity to read in the first round, the lineup for subsequent rounds is determine is determined by the judges scores. In other words, the judges vote for which poets they want to see more work from.

The Writing Center’s next Get Creative event will feature various talented, gifted students, who are poetry artists, ready to share their inspiration and art. All further details are below.

Isaiah Velez is our feature presenter at our next Get Creative event at Nyack College, NYC Campus. All further details are below.

Fashion Speaks is a creative event that will be hosted by the Writing Center, Rockland Campus on Thursday October 5th, 2017.All further details are below.

Get to Know Our Presenters!

The Writing Center Rockland will be hosting our next event
with Rebecca Przywara onThursday, April 6th.

Admission is free, everyone is invited, and light refreshments will be served.So check it out below!You can also read Deborah Walker’s post on this event.

Our First AnnualGet Creative! Collaborative Event
Presenting …

What is Love?
We seek the answer to this in every spectrum of life. Yet, if we take a step back and focus on the ultimate source of love, what answers will we find?

Our presenters will enter a conversation examining love through the lens of John 15:13 and John 13:5, exploring love as an act of surrender, a facet of friendship, and a monument to commitment.

So come join The Writing Center Rockland in collaboration with five creative minds from the Nyack College Community on Thursday, March 16th. Admission is free, and everyone is invited! See below for further details.

For links to each presenter’s page and more, check out Deborah Walker’s post on this event.

The Writing Center Rockland will be hosting our next event
with Dr. and Mrs. Gates onThursday, February 16th.
Read Deborah Walker’s post on this event here.

Light refreshments will be served. So check it out below!

The Writing Center Rockland will be hosting our next event with Rachel Lee onThursday, December 1st.

Light refreshments will be served. So check it out below!

The Writing Center Rockland will be hosting our next event with
Emmanuel Jean-Pierre onThursday, November 17th.

Light refreshments will be served. So check it out below!

The Writing Center Rockland is having our next event with Dr. Brad. McDuffie onThursday, October 27th.

Light refreshments will be served. So check it out below!

The Writing Center Rockland will be hosting our first Get Creative event
with Loud Mouths onThursday, October 6th.